A Summary Of John's Impact On The Western Front

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One of seven children, John was the son of a shoemaker. He was born to Adam and Margery (née Gorstage) and baptised at St. Mark’s Church in January 1891. As a young child he lived on Hurlston Green but following the death of his father in 1897 the family moved to Smithy Lane. John was a pupil at St. Mark's School and later worked as a horseman at a local farm on Hurlston Green.

John enlisted in The King's (Liverpool) Regiment in December 1914. He volunteered for active service abroad, to fight for (as he himself put it) “love, life and liberty”. He left for France on August 5th 1915 and became a gunner in the regiment’s machine-gun section. John had already seen heavy fighting at the Battle of Loos prior to taking part in the Somme Offensive in the summer of 1916. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war, eventually taking the lives of over a million men. …show more content…
John’s battalion was involved in one such action in early August. The contingent took up positions at Arrow Head Copse close to Guillemont amid heavy shell fire. The scene was one of carnage with the bodies of men and horses littering the battlefield. Shell fire was incessant and the men lived alongside the corpses of their fallen colleagues, made worse by the heat of the summer and a shortage of clean drinking water. The French attacked in the region of Maltz Horn Farm on the 12th August supported by the 9th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. The battalion came under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire and took many casualties, eventually having to withdraw from their advanced positions because of a heavy cross-fire. As a machine-gunner John would have been in the middle of the action and was killed by a sniper in the evening of August 12th 1916. He wrote a number of letters to home which include the following
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